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活动和项目
事件
Dr. Aymar Jean Christian is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University 和 the founder of Open TV (Beta), a web platform for queer indie artists of color. Open TV's mission states, "television must be open to diverse identities 和 their experiences, so we are committed to developing work from artists most often left out of commercial production: queer, 反式, 和 cis-women 和 people of color." In its first cycle of programming, OpenTV released 9.5 hours of original programming, including six original series, both narrative 和 documentary.
Open TV 和 its series have been funded by both The Chicago Digital Media Production Fund (CDMPF) 和 The Propeller Fund as well as a grant from the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN). Series creators have also crowdfunded over $12,000 to supplement grants.
Dr. Christian's talk explores preliminary insights he gleaned from producing 和 exhibiting two queer television series for Open TV (Beta): 棕色的女孩 by Fatimah Asghar 和 Sam Bailey 和 Brujos by Ricardo Gamboa 和 Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke. The production 和 release of 棕色的女孩 和 Brujos reveals how sincerely representing intersectional identities creates value in local 和 online community-building, sustained discourse about production 和 representation, 和 advancing artistry in networked television.
项目
Mapping Lambert's Point collects oral histories from longtime residents of the predominantly lower-income neighborhood about significant places in the community, whether still st和ing or long gone, 和 then embeds those stories in a virtual map using geotagging. The project draws on principles from cultural geography, 博物馆RESEARCH, 和 public history in order to provide the Lambert's Point community (which is adjacent to ODU) with a forum for sharing their experiences 和 perspectives.
MediaCommons Field Guide is an open-access hub for scholarly conversation about born-digital research, 教育学, 评价, 出版, 和 community-building; a forum for touchstone issues in the digital humanities. MediaCommons operates several ongoing projects including In Media Res, (在)过渡, Alt-Ac, The New Everyday 和 the Field Guide. The Field Guide is intended to generate conversations about future directions for higher education, 奖学金, 教育学, 人文学科.
Through our 人文学科 in Hampton Roads initiative, we aim to provoke critical conversations within 和 across communities in the Tidewater area through the arts, 流行文化, 和 through town hall discussions. 重要的是, these initiatives are often student-led 和 student-driven, which offers invaluable service learning 和 leadership training opportunities.
